Event Details

This tour will start with St Mark's Square, the former political centre of the Venetian Republic, and will take you into St.Mark's Basilica, a 900 year old marvel of architecture, unique in Italy for its Byzantine and Medieval mosaics, its intricate stone and marble traceries and exuberant orientalizing domes

(Our guide will be armed with a special pass, so you will skip the line to get in !)

Our guide will describe all the famous architectures (the Doges' Palace, Sansovino Library, the Bridge of Sighs, the Bell Tower...) and will provide a good historical introduction to the city: its genesis, maximum expansion and decline, through the course of time,spanning from the 9th to the 19th century !

After that, away from the crowds, we take a walk "backstage" to discover the unique layout of the city: bridges, fancy private palaces, narrow alleyways, large and small squares, elaborate stone well heads

You'll learn how to get oriented in this maze like city, how it feels living in a place like this, and how today's administrators deal with the maintenance of this fragile heritage, facing year after year the risks of massive and unsustainable tourism!

We'll end our visit in the busy central area of Rialto, defined by historians "the Wall Street of Europe in the Middle Ages"to see the bridge - with a spectacular view on the Grand Canal - and its famous surroundings

The tour operates:

MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS FROM 2.30 UNTIL 5.00 PM

Meeting point : at the exit of the Doges' Palace (see picture here below):

Price for this tour: Euro 60 per personmaximum number of participants : 8 people

Dress code: no shorts - knee high is ok

no sleeveless - short sleeves are fine

As official city guides we can access St Mark's Basilica through priority entrance

Thursday, July 26, 2018 from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM (CEST)

Organizer

Experience, accuracy and passion at your service! Advising about how to tailor your own itineraries. Suggesting things to see and do according to your needs. Taking you off the beaten track to discover the hidden treasures. Beating the crowds with you for personalized and painless visits to the “must-sees”.